SANTIAGO (Reuters) - When Michelle Bachelet became health minister under President Ricardo Lagos in 2000, he assigned her a daunting task: end the long lines in Chile's saturated primary health care centres within three months.
Bachelet struggled to meet the deadline. Yet, when Lagos visited a medical centre to survey the situation, a woman whisked him aside to praise Bachelet and beg him to keep her in his cabinet.
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